Milton S. Robinson

Milton S. Robinson

Milton Stapp Robinson (born April 20, 1832 in Versailles , Ripley County , Indiana , †  July 28, 1892 in Anderson , Indiana) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Milton Robinson had only a limited elementary education. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1851, he began to work in Anderson in this profession. Politically, he joined the Republican Party founded in 1854 . In 1856 he was one of the electors for John C. Frémont in the presidential election . In 1861, he briefly ran the Michigan City Penitentiary . During the civil war he rose from lieutenant colonel to brevet brigadier general . He served in an infantry unit in the Union Army .

Robinson was a member of the Indiana Senate between 1866 and 1870 . In 1872 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia , on which President Ulysses S. Grant was nominated for re-election. In the congressional elections of 1874 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Morton C. Hunter on March 4, 1875 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1879 . In 1878 he renounced another candidacy.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Robinson practiced law again. In 1891 he became a judge on the Indiana Court of Appeals. Milton Robinson died on April 20, 1892 in Anderson, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Milton S. Robinson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Milton S. Robinson in the database of Find a Grave (English)